Poor House Burials

[crookedtail]

Hi,

Thank you so much for the link...quite interesting.....
I will check now to see about James's buriel...
Crookedtail

[karenkozak]

Hello
I was wondering where someone would be buried if they died at a Barnhill Poorhouse?? Isabella McArthur Begly/Begley died Jan 18 1869 she was my 3rd great grandmother, I was wondering how Iwould go about finding her and if there are any buried records?? thanks karen

[sancti]

Most likely in unmarked common ground

[RJ_Paton]

The Mitchell Library holds the majority of the poorhouse records for this area and by consulting them you may get further information.

Unfortunately when residents of the poohouse died it was often the case that the absolute minimum would be done for their burial and many were buried in cemeteries which held "multiple occupancy" public graves, these graves were in the majority of cases also left unmarked.

You may already have seen this site which has some background information regarding Barnhill
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Scotland/UnionsScotland.shtml

Barnhill is found under Barony parish in Lanarkshire in this list.

[karenkozak]

thank you.. Karen

[Audreycharlie]

Hi ellen,

MY brother died 45years ago aged 5 months.  He was buried in a paupers grave they lived in Govan. My dad died early and my mum passed away 2years ago. She always wanted to know where he was buried so we could leave a plague to commerate him as back then women were not allowed to the funerals and  my father was in pieces soI have no-one to ask now. I came along the year after my brother and I would love to be able to do this for my mum as it destroyed her for years and I want her to have peace now.
Can you please help me
Audrey

[Jimster]

Hi Audrey
Very sad story …
If it’s any consolation your brother would not have been buried in a pauper’s grave

If my maths are correct he died in 1964, and as the welfare state had been in existence since the 1940’s, your brother could not have been a “pauper”.

If his parents could not afford a burial plot he may have been buried in an existing plot of a family member, a cheaper option would have been cremation. Your parents could have received assistance to pay for a basic funeral.

Please don’t confuse a pauper’s grave with an unmarked grave, many relatives could not afford to pay for a memorial headstone.

 Your mum may have been too distressed to attend the funeral, I wonder if there are any other family members who could shed some light on where he is buried?

Another suggestion is to find out where your parents were living when he died and research for local funeral directors at the time … they may have kept records
Good luck

[Evelina]

Hi Ellen1, I wondered if your offer of help still stands and if you have come across Robert Kean my 2x great granduncle.  he died in the City Poorhouse, Glasgow from TB., on 25 Jan 1877, he was 26.  His residence in 1971 was 51 Tylefield Street, Chalmers, Glasgow so I am guessing its in the same area?

Hope you can point me in the right direction, many thanks, Evelina

As to putting up memorials to loved ones I found my 4x great grandmother was buried in Glasgow Necropolis in common ground, so no MI but the Friends of Glasgow Necropolis have a web site where you can supply yoiur relatives detials and they will put in on.  This is the mine below:-

Sidney Wade (Currie)
We have the first of, we hope, many profiles of the people buried in
the Common Ground in the Necropolis. Evelyn M Vernolini sent this
information about her 4th Great Grandmother, Sidney Wade.

Sidney Wade was born around 1795 in Belfast, Ireland. Her parents were William Wade, a Labourer and Jean whose maiden name is unknown.

She was married to Matthew Currie, a Tailor, perhaps in Ireland, as at least one of her children, Jane my 3rd great grandmother was born there. I also guess she was widowed before 1841 as Matthew is not on the census after that.

In 1841 she worked as a Cotton Winder and was living in Marshalls Lane, Glasgow. By 1851 she was a Seamstress and living in Red Row, King Street. Calton. She had at least 14 children but 5 of them were not named on her death certificate which says she was buried in Sighthill Cemetery, as certified by James (Howie) Undertaker. However on checking with the Cemeteries department they told me she was buried in the Glasgow Necropolis in common ground.

She died 31st March 1855 at the age of 60 from Chronic Bronchitis at 104 King Street, Calton, Glasgow at 1.30 pm. She had lived in Glasgow for 30 years.

General enquiries: chair@glasgownecropolis.org
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The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis website is sponsored and created by © Infinite Eye 2005, All Rights Reserved.

Maybe other cemetaries could be persued to do something similar.

[Vel]

Hi,

 Margaret Isabella Henning [see below]died in Govan Poorhouse, I would love to know if it is possible to find out where she is buried. I live in Northern Ireland and cannot get to the Mitchell in person. I would be most grateful if anyone making a trip to the Mitchell would check the records for me.  Thanks.

I am researching the tragic life of my relative William Henning and his wife Ellen Davidson Dodds and their family
They left Ireland [ Newry Co. Down] around 1901 for Glasgow with their daughter Sarah Ann Victoria [ born in Ireland 1900]and settled in Maclean Street Govan, Glasgow. [ Sarah Ann Victoria died in 1914 in Glasgow]
Their second child Margaret Isabella Henning was born on the 10 July 1902 at 69 Mclean Street, she died in Govan Poor House on 9th June 1906.  The 3rd child Mary Jane Henning was born on the 19th September 1904 at 10 Mclean St Govan she lived just 11 months dying on the 11 September 1905.

Ellen [ William's wife ]died on 15th May 1905 aged 24. William enlisted in the Great War with the Inniskillen Fusiliers -- and yes you guessed it he was killed on the 15th October 1918 --less than a month from the end of the war.